TEHRAN – The variety of medical vacationers visiting Iran is about 1 million yearly, a Health Ministry official stated.
“One million international sufferers are handled in Iran yearly,” Mohammad Hossein Niknam, head of the ministry’s worldwide cooperation division, stated on Monday.
“We take into account this space to be well being diplomacy and it’s a good platform to develop the nation’s worldwide exchanges.”
Niknam stated the ministry is following three key insurance policies to extend the nation’s share within the international $100 billion market.
“Our coverage within the well being sector is targeted on the internationalization of our capabilities, particularly on taking part in an efficient position in attracting sufferers from neighboring nations, and on scientific and financial cooperation to extend the nation’s share within the worldwide well being market. It is expounded to the event of
According to Saeed Karimi, Deputy Minister of Health, Iran’s medical tourism income prior to now Iranian calendar 12 months (ending March 20) reached $1 billion, and “247 hospitals and medical facilities have been granted particular permits for medical tourism.” He added:
“The majority of medical vacationers arriving in Iran are from neighboring nations resembling Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, Bahrain, Armenia and Tajikistan.”
Islamic Republic ranks forty sixth as a medical tourism vacation spot [within the 2020-2021 Medical Tourism Index]he added.
Experts stated that medical tourism in Iran is a win-win alternative for each the nation and international sufferers, because it offers high quality therapy companies at reasonably priced costs and permits Iran to earn important international change. ing.
The Islamic Republic is understood worldwide as an reasonably priced well being tourism vacation spot, and the federal government is making nice efforts to draw extra medical tourism within the coming years.
Reliable surgeons and docs, state-of-the-art medical know-how, high-tech drugs and various specialties, very reasonably priced surgical procedures, and lastly, a hospitable inhabitants are thought of Iran’s trump playing cards in medical tourism.
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